Events

Now, a year later, I can take a look back and summarize this year up:

Entered in 2016 year disappointed - I was not allowed to enter the United States 🇺🇸.

I had started to write a handbook — 📖 bash-handbook. I’ve been really excited, when this handbook got 200⭐️. A few days after Jorge Bucaran shared a link to this book on Reddit. As a result, the book hit the tops of GitHub and got 2K⭐️ for two days (now it has about 2.6K⭐️). Translated to:

In Dec 31, Anton Shuvalov proposed me to take a lead on @jsunderhood — this is a collective twitter-accout for JavaScript-developers with a new author every week. I agreed. My week was from Dec 22 to Dec 28. It was amazing experience of communicating with a lot of developers: a steady stream of questions, discussions, debates, a lot of new material. The archive of my week: @denysdovhan

Organized NodeSchool Chernivtsi #2 workshop. There weren’t enough participants. Workshopper about Bash was extremely difficult for most of people.

Finally tried React in practice and wrote the first simple project.

Created a simple workshopper about Markdown — how-to-markdown. It was included in NodeSchool’s core-workshoppers and thanks for that I’ve been invited to workshopper organization later.

I helped to organize the dedication of first year students 👨🏻‍🎓 in my University. 2 days in mountains 🏔, in quite extreme environment with thunderous music and drunk and inadequate crowds of young students. I spent the whole evening in the arbor and talked with Renata.

In September–October I’ve been bruning out. Felt constant fatigue, weakness, nausea, had no appetite and taste. Felt mentally broken. Saw no purpose in life. Didn’t see goals in outlined future. Heavily suffered from loneliness. Here is a huge thanks for supporting to Ivan Akulov, Vladimir Starkov and Masha.

Received an offer from Eugene Obrezkov to speak at TechTalks meet-up in Kharkiv, but declined due to lack of time and mental problems.

In Oct 3 got an offer by Stanislav Termosa. He offered to give a talk at KharkivJS. I’ve decided to talk about JavaScript Shells 🦐🐚. I was added to speaker’s chat. The first thought I got after that was: “What have I forgot among these smart guys?”

The only one problem that wasn’t solved in this year: to have a durable relationship 💑.

In numbers

💔 no relationships

👫 twice (three times?) fell in friendzone

💵 wage increased in 6 times (from scholarships and donations for opensource to work in companies)

🔄 1,749 contributions in the last year on GitHub (866 contributions in 2015)

⭐️ +3К on GitHub

🎫 4 conferences (3 talks)

🎤 14 meet-ups (3 talks)

🏛 7 cities

Twitter stats:

💙 500 followers

✍🏻 2.5К tweets

👁 646К tweets views

🤓 40К profile views

🔗 2.2К mentions

So, if we remind my tweet with goals, here’s a summary:

✅ - Finally buy MacBook

❌ - Find a girlfriend

✅ - Make smth really awesome and open source

✅ - Organise few meetups

Thanksgivings

Now, after all, I would be happy to say thank you for everyone who have supported me for this year. Thanks for everything. I’m glad that life gave me a chance to meet you all. I’m happy to work, talk, meet, relax, learn with you, because everything of that is a chance to make each other better people.